Hair-curling device



E. ROESSNER.

HAIR CURLING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE n, 1921.

1,406,083, Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

- connecting the wind spindle to the guard UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.-

ENA ROESSYNER, orfnnw YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-CURLING nnvron.

Specification of Letters iatent. I

Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

Application filed June 11, 1921. Serial No. 476,702.

To aZZ whom it may concern v 7 Be it known that I, ENA' Ronssxnn, a cit izen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Curling Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is the produc tion of simple, inexpensive, but effective hair curling device that may be conveniently manipulated, and which is adapted to the production of marcel waves, spiral curls', 'bob c.urls,"etc., as hereinafter fully set f0rth,-the invention consisting in the specific construction, 'combinatiomand arrangement of parts described and claimed, and a distinctive fea= ture being the formation of the guard yoke and snap loop of a single piece of metallic wire bent into permanent shape and having sufficient elastic resilience to maintain such normalshape while admitting of the facile snap-locking and release of the otherwise free end of the hair wind spindle as required in use. i f

In the accompanying drawings, Fig, 1, is a side elevation of myimproved hair curling device, closed;

Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation taken upon I plane of line 4 4*, Fig. 4;

Figs. 5 and 6, are sectional details showing modifications in the means of artieularly Fig. 7, is a cross section taken upon plane of line 77, Fig. 1.

The guard. yoke G, is formed of a single piece of elastic; resilient material, such as metallic wire of suitable gauge, bent up and set into permanent shape which is preferably that of an elongate rectangular parallelogram as shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4, of the drawings. I

. respect.

The wind spindle S, may be either solid or hollow, preferably the latter as shown in all but Figs. 4 and 4. It maybe conveniently and economically made of a single piece of'sheet. metal bent into cylindrical shape incross section as shown'particularly I in Fig. 7, although other material may be used, so that I do not limit myself in this The hollow metallic form of wind spindle S, is however advantageous in some respects in that it is adapted to receive a heating iron of slightly less diameter which may be inserted in the spindle for the purpose of heating and thereby imparting a .more permanent set to a strandof, hair wound around said spindle, as indicated for instance in 3.

When-the wind spindle S, is hollow as above stated, the guard yoke G, may be pivotally secured thereto at oneextremity by inserting the ends 9, 9, through holes .9, 5, 5?

formed for the purpose in and near one ex tremity of'said spindle tube S, and upsetting the said ends 9, g, either by inturning them as shown-in Fig. 6, or by flatteningthern as shown in Fig. 5, as may be found most b011 4- venient or expedient 1n manufacture, the

result being the same in feithercase that the said ends g, g, of the guard yoke G, are thereby secured: against displacement, and a pivotal connection. is effected between-thee said wind spindle S, and its guard yoke Gr. Or a like result may be attained in the construction shown in Figs. 4, 4 in which the yoke wire is passed through a perforation s, (or perforations) in the end of wind spindle, and the ends brought together and welded or otherwise united integrally as at Fig. 4, in which case the wind spindle may be either hollow as in most of the fig- 7 ures of the drawings, or solid, as indicated in Figs. 4 and 4, thereof.

The outer or free end of the guard yoke G, is bent into the form of asnap-loop g",

the entrance thereto being normally slightly less than the external diameter of the wind spindle S, and the elasticity andresilience of the material of which'the guard yoke G, is composed being relied upon to admit of the forcible insertion of the free end of the spindle S, into the loop g",-and its retention therein until forcibly released therefrom.

The simplicity and utility of the device 1 thus constructed is obvious. The parts may be quickly opened up either forthe purpose of winding a lock or strand of hair around the spindle or removing it therefrom,the snap-loop 9*, readily yielding to a moderate degree of pressure, while adapted'to lock the parts together with sufiicient strength and tenacity to resist accidental displace ment.

It may be noted in this connection that my device presents only round, smooth, surfaces for contact with the hair, thereby ob viating injury thereto, while safeguarding the lock of hair wound upon the spindle against undesirable contact with extraneous objects. Furthermore the device, while simple of structure and facile of manipulation, is strong and substantial, and not liable to get out of order or deteriorate under ordinary conditions of use.

By the term guard yoke as used in the claims it is to be understood'that I mean a Also that by the term wind spindle? I mean to designate any suitable spool-support forthe hair to be curled, substantially as herein set forth. H I

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1; As an article of manufacture, a hair curling device of the character designated, comprising a one piece guard yoke of elastic resilient wire bent permanentlyinto elongate substantially rectangular shape at the ends, one end being formed with a snap loop andthe other constituting a fulcrum for the articular support of a wind-spindle, and said wind-spindle consisting of a single piece of metal bent into permanent hollow cylindrical shape and pivotally attached to said fulcrum end of the guard I I a lateral snap-loop and the ends of the wire at the other extremity of the guard yoke being upset to form fulcrum shouldersfor engagement with a hollow wind-spindle, and said wind-spindle consisting of a single piece of sheet metal bent into permanent hollow cylindrical shape and pivotallyattached to said fulcrum end of the yoke, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

3. As an article of manufacture, a hair curling device of the character designated,

comprising a one-piece guard yoke of'ela'stic resilient wire bent permanently into elongate substantially rectangular shape, one'extremity of the yoke piece beingformed into a lateral snap-loop and the ends of the wire ing intu'rned to form'fulcrum shoulders for at the other extremity of the guard yoke be engagement with a hollow wind-spindle, and a said wind-spindle consisting of a single piece of sheet metal bent into permanent hollow cylindrical shape and pivotally attached to said fulcrum end of the yoke, substan- ENA ROESSNER. I

Witnesses:

Tnos. W. ROBINSON, R. M. ROESSNER. 

